May 30 2015
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Daily Post, Portrait, Stranger

Admiring the view from Montmartre

Wednesday 27th May 2015, 11.35am (day 1,371)

Montmartre, 27/5/15

So as you might have gathered from yesterday’s post (I said, don’t ask), we have been in Paris for a few days. France becomes the 22nd different country to feature on the blog. Not a new country or place for me, but it’s been a while (2003 was the last visit to France and around 2000, I forget exactly, to Paris). We were staying near Montmartre, a good place to amble around on a warm sunny day and enjoy the view over the city from the steps below the Sacre-Coeur, as these people (and several hundred others) are doing.

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May 30 2015
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Daily Post, Interior

Lost property office, Gare du Nord

Tuesday 26th May 2015, 6.50pm (day 1,370)

Lost property office, 26/5/15

Welcome to Paris. Don’t even ask.

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May 25 2015
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Outside ‘Flying Saucers’

Monday 25th May 2015, 4.05pm (day 1,369)

Flying saucers, 25/5/15

Clearing up after the Bank Holiday crowd. Saturday’s walk notwithstanding, it has not been the most eventful eight days, but there’ll be a burst of activity from tomorrow.

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May 24 2015
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Daily Post, Interior

Lego lady gets desperate

Sunday 24th May 2015, 7.20pm (day 1,368)

Lego lady, 24/5/15

I could explain again the basis of Clare’s blog with her Lego lady…. but I’m not going to. Rest assured that I did take this shot, hence it fits with the rules of my own blog. Do I feel like this? That’s for me to know and you to find out.

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May 23 2015
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Daily Post, Landscape

View from High Knott

Saturday 23rd May 2015, 11.30am (day 1,367)

The Langdales, 23/5/15

Far too glorious a day to not go on a walk. The walking blog will get updated tomorrow, but for now, here’s one of today’s spectacular views: Great End on the left, then the three lumps from centre to right are Loft Crag, Pike o’Stickle and Harrison Stickle — the Langdale Pikes. England doesn’t get a great deal better than this.

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May 22 2015
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Steve and Abdul

Friday 22nd May 2015, 7.15pm (day 1,366)

Steve and Abdul, 22/5/15

At the end of a week that I have mostly spent marking but which tired me out anyway. Where else to go but the pub?

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May 22 2015
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Speaker at the cinema

Thursday 21st May 2015, 8.15pm (day 1,365)

Speaker cinema, 21/5/15

Went to the cinema tonight to see a superb film, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly — if you’ve never seen it I highly recommend it. It was being shown as a charity fundraiser, which meant we were obliged to listen to the speeches beforehand, hence this picture. But I am being unfair — it was for a good cause. And did I say it was a very good movie?

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May 20 2015
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Daily Post, Interior

Lines, Victoria

Wednesday 20th May 2015, 2.10pm (day 1,364)

Lines, 20/5/15

The refurbishment of Manchester Victoria station must be nearly complete, but while half of it has now been opened up dramatically, the other half (platforms 3-6) remain, and probably always will remain, stuck under the Arena which squats over it like the corporate edifice that it is. And yes, I know that 2.10pm is rather early to be heading home, but I have marking to do.

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May 19 2015
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Mending the NFM

Tuesday 19th May 2015, 10.20am (day 1,363)

Mending NFM, 19/5/15

Instalment n+1 in the occasional series, “Blokes Up The Sides of Manchester Buildings Doing Their Jobs” (see also here, here and here).

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May 18 2015
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Dusk over Hebden

Monday 18th May 2015, 8.15pm (day 1,362)

Sunset, 18/5/15

Having put myself about a bit over the last couple of weeks — this is only the fourth of May’s pictures to be taken in Hebden Bridge — I had a profoundly inactive day today, spent working at home. Lucky for you this dusk shot manifested itself this evening as you were this close to getting a picture of my feet. Be thankful for small mercies.

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